"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (14-16JAN22) Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace - God's unmerited favor - from our sins and from Hell: True Godly, Christ-Honoring Assurance True Godly, Christ-honoring assurance of salvation cannot be enhanced by our working more. It cannot be improved by our striving to love and serve one another. True Godly, Christ-honoring assurance of salvation comes by looking to, trusting, and resting in Christ more and more for ALL salvation, from its origin to its culmination in glory.   This is why all true believers, sinners saved by God’s grace, are told to “labor therefore to enter into THAT REST” (Heb rews 4:11). This is the rest that Christ entered into after He finished the work of redeeming us from our sins and establishing righteousness for us by which God has justif...

"Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."   -II Corinthians 6:17 [KJV] If we are entangled in the love of the world, or fast bound and fettered with worldly anxieties, and the spirit of the world is rife in our bosom, all our profession will be vapid, if not worthless. We may use the language of prayer, but the heart is not in earnest; we may still manage to hold our head high in a profession of the truth, but its power and blessedness are neither known nor felt. To enjoy any measure of communion with the Lord, whether on the cross or on the throne, we must go forth from a world which is at enmity against Him. We must also go forth out of self, for to deny it, renounce it, and go forth out of it lies at the very foundation of vital godliness.  There must be "a mortifying, through the Spirit, of the deeds of the body;" a being "always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the...